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  Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot. - Italian Proverb Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. - Louis L'Amour Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. - Euripides Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. - Mahatma Gandhi You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. - Leonardo da Vinci The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. - Leo Tolstoy I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. - Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D.C., 1865 We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. - Ray Bradbury READ MORE

  Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. - Seneca Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Benjamin Franklin Never spend your money before you have it. - Thomas Jefferson When anger rises, think of the consequences. - Confucius Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. - Sophia Loren Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. - Otto von Bismarck If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. - Henry David Thoreau Take what you can use and let the rest go by. - Ken Kesey The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. - G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14 READ MORE

  Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. - Don Marquis Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. - Albert Camus I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J. D. Salinger Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. - Robert Louis Stevenson Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. -Mark Twain This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream. - Bill Murray The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. - Ronald ...

  A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! - Walt Whitman The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. - Oscar Wilde If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. - Benjamin Franklin I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant. - Ring Lardner The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. - Daniel Webster I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. - Sir Winston Churchill READ MORE

  Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. - Willa Cather Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law. - Japanese Proverb The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. - Robert Benchley The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time. - George Bernard Shaw Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any. - Ralph Waldo Emerson They certainly give very strange names to diseases. - Plato Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! - Theodore Roosevelt Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. - Norman Mailer READ MORE

  The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. - Edith Sitwell It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. - Mark Twain Energy is eternal delight. - William Blake Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself. - Liberace If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. - Robert Louis Stevenson Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. - Bill Gates Be sincere; be brief; be seated. - Franklin D. Roosevelt Complain to one who can help you. - Yugoslav Proverb READ MORE

  Give all to love; obey thy heart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson In the fight between you and the world, back the world.  - Frank Zappa If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. - Bob Hope To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship. - Thomas Moore Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - Robert Frost The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. - Woodrow Wilson A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. - George Bernard Shaw Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. - Leonardo da Vinci READ MORE NICE

  Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe, 'Eleanora,' 1842 I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. - Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977 One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A. A. Milne The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. - Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952 To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. - Albert Einstein Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.  - Emily Dicki...

  Photo: Mike / Pexels Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. - John Lithgow A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. - Tallulah Bankhead You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. - e e cummings The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. - John F. Kennedy There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. - G. K. Chesterton Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. -  Mark Twain To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship. - Thomas Moore READ MORE NICE

  Image by Grok Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. - Rita Mae Brown The world belongs to the energetic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson You can observe a lot just by watching. - Yogi Berra, Berra's Law He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. - Benjamin Franklin We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. - Helen Keller England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process. - John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, 1956 The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Charles Du Bos Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington The public will ...

  Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. - Ralph Waldo Emerson When you come to a fork in the road, take it. - Yogi Berra I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. - Harry S Truman A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be. - Rosalynn Carter Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. - Louis L'Amour Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers MORE... NICE

  Image created by ChatGPT We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. - William Arthur Ward Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson In a mad world only the mad are sane. - Akira Kurosawa There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. - Pablo Picasso It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. - Enrico Fermi College isn't the place to go for ideas. - Helen Keller It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. - Confucius Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. - George Washington Anything too stupid to be said is sung. - Voltaire There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. - Muhammad Ali READ MORE NICE

  The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. - e e cummings One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. - Helen Keller A Hospital is no place to be sick. - Samuel Goldwyn The world belongs to the energetic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson [Common sense] is the best sense I know of. - Lord Chesterfield You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? - Bernadette Peters, Inside the Actors Studio A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. - Victor Hugo Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. - Robert Louis Stevenson Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. - Mark Twain He who would travel happily must travel light. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery READ MORE NICE

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity - Walt Whitman It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. - Pierre Beaumarchais It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. - Isaac Asimov A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. - George Bernard Shaw It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. - Arthur C. Clarke Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. - Sir Winston Churchill If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Food is our common ground, a universal experience. - James Beard There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. - Booker T. Washington READ MORE NICE

  Gore Vidal Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn. - Gore Vidal Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head. - Andy Rooney Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. - Kurt Vonnegut Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. - Dr. Seuss The body says what words cannot. - Martha Graham It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. - Dick Cavett Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. - Elbert Hubbard The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. - Jane Austen, Mansfield Park Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - 'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.' - Joan McIntosh I would never die for my beliefs because I might be...

  Image by Grok The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything. - John Irving I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. - Duke Ellington To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. - Confucius If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day. - George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Act 2 If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, January 20, 1961 To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. - G. K. Chesterton Vote early and vote often. - Al...

  Image by ChatGPT Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life. - Jean Paul Richter Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. - Robert Fripp No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. - Charles M. Schulz Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't. - Melody Beattie There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. - Arthur Miller The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon. - Amy Vanderbilt The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win. - Robert Heinlein Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest fo...

  Rose Kennedy Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? - Rose Kennedy You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. - Herman Melville There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. - Pablo Picasso If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way. -Jane Goodall The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. -Martin Mull A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. -John le Carre Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. -Alexandre Dumas As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust...

  Amelia Earhart Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. --Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927 Love truth, and pardon error. --Voltaire Walking is man's best medicine. --Hippocrates The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --George Bernard Shaw Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. --Benjamin Franklin In summer, the song sings itself. --William Carlos Williams How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. --Henry David Thoreau At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. --Friedrich Nietzsche Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. --Napoleon Bonaparte Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. --Ralph Waldo Emerson READ MORE INTERESTING

  Lucille Ball The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. --Lucille Ball All things must change to something new, to something strange. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. --Marie Curie How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? --Charles De Gaulle, in "Les Mots du General", 1962 You live and learn. At any rate, you live. --Douglas Adams I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. --Jane Austen It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. --Sir Winston Churchill A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. --Herman Melville Lack of money is the root of all evil. --George Bernard Shaw You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. --Jack London READ MORE...

  Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. --Napoleon Bonaparte A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. --Wayne Gretzky The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. --Robert Frost You can't have everything. Where would you put it? --Steven Wright Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. --Groucho Marx I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. --Galileo Galilei Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? --Henry Ward Beecher The truth is rarely pure and never simple. --Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. --William Arthur Ward Live forever or die in the attempt. --Joseph Heller, Catch 22 READ MORE INTERESTING

  Helen Keller When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. --Helen Keller Truth is what stands the test of experience. --Albert Einstein Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. --Samuel Butler Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. --Leo Tolstoy If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. --Oscar Wilde A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. --Emily Dickinson, No. 1333 Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. --William Arthur Ward In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. --Mark Twain To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. --Oliver Wendell Holmes Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie...

  Dorothy Fields Love is the reason for it all. --Dorothy Fields In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. -- Robert Heinlein What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do...? --Friedrich Nietzsche Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. --Dr. Seuss A short saying oft contains much wisdom. --Sophocles Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. --Oscar Wilde I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say. --Calvin Coolidge The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. --Whitney Young It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing...

  Carl Sandburg Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. --Carl Sandburg Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. --Sir Winston Churchill You must lose a fly to catch a trout. --George Herbert It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. --Agnes Repplier Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. --Arthur Miller Truth is what stands the test of experience. --Albert Einstein Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. --Frank Zappa Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. --G. K. Chesterton Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. --Martin Luther King Jr. An idea is salvation by imagination. --Frank Lloyd Wright READ MORE

  Harry S Truman Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything. --Harry S Truman I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy. --Frank Zappa Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. -- Plato If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. --Henry Ford Indecision may or may not be my problem. --Jimmy Buffett Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. --Thomas Jefferson If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. --Dick Cavett I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. --Albert Einstein One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. - Marie Curie, Letter to her brother, 1894 No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --Eleanor Roosevelt, 'This Is My Story,' 1937 READ MORE Check out Lemp...

  Rose Kennedy Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? --Rose Kennedy No wise man ever wished to be younger. --Jonathan Swift You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. --Abraham Lincoln The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. --Socrates Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. --Anthony Burgess This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. --Ralph Waldo Emerson That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election. --Will Rogers If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it. --Joyce Carol Oates I am not young enough...

Marguerite de Valois Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. --Marguerite de Valois Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. --Henry David Thoreau Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. --Walter Winchell It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. --Jonathan Swift The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. --Elizabeth Taylor To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. --Jane Austen Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. --Jean Paul Richter If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play....

  Theodore Roosevelt When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. --Theodore Roosevelt Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. --Thomas Jefferson Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. --Abraham Lincoln If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. --Agatha Christie I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. --Johnny Carson Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. --Charles Dickens It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. --Jerry Seinfeld The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. --Joseph Heller, Catch 22 Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a ste...

  Peter Ustinov Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. --Peter Ustinov Nothing endures but personal qualities. --Walt Whitman Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. --Thomas Jefferson Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. --Isaac Asimov Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. --Ralph Waldo Emerson If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. --Mario Andretti It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. --Upton Sinclair A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. --Clare Booth Luce We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe C...

  Jeanne Moreau Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. --Jeanne Moreau Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. --Don Marquis Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. --John Quincy Adams Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. --W. C. Fields In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. --Johann von Neumann Good taste is the enemy of comedy. --Mel Brooks Whatever you are, be a good one. --Abraham Lincoln Every hero becomes a bore at last.  --Ralph Waldo Emerson The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. --Norman Mailer It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. --Mark Twain Check out Minyak Terapi Saraf Afya Bidara | 30ml for RM29.90. Get it on Shopee now! https://s.shopee.com.my/4AkDXFfwYL?share_channel_code=1...

  An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. --Will Rogers Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses. --Margaret Millar It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave. --Homer When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt, quoted Kansas City Star, June 5, 1977 A minute's success pays the failure of years. --Robert Browning The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. --Oliver Wendell Holmes Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. --Abraham Lincoln Nothing fails like success. --Gerald Nachman The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. --Martina Navratilova When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. --Gracie Allen Check out Mus...

  Bob Dylan What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. --Bob Dylan Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. --Rita Mae Brown Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. --George S. Patton Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. --Francis Quarles For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. --Virginia Woolf I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. --Joseph Conrad A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. --Nelson Mandela I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. --Edith Sitwell What you do speaks so loud that I can...

  Otto von Bismarck When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice. --Otto von Bismarck Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. --Aristotle Be sincere; be brief; be seated. --Franklin D. Roosevelt Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. --Sir Francis Bacon What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? --Henry David Thoreau There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. --James Thurber The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain. --Susan B. Anthony Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. --Samuel Johnson I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. --Mark Twain Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a m...

  By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. --Socrates The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape... --Pablo Picasso It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. --Henry David Thoreau The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. --Cecil B. DeMille Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. --Eleanor Roosevelt We turn not older with years, but newer every day. --Emily Dickinson One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. --Oscar Wilde You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. -...